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The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
by Sean B. Carroll
from W. W. Norton

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• The Fittest Record
  We do not know how much farther science will take us, but from "Making of the Fittest", Prof Carroll in tracing the record of evolution through genetic studies suggests that even though we have come a long way, the distance ahead may appear infinite, but has all the prospects of exhilaring scholarship. The genetic record of evolution is an impressive record that goes back 2 billion years. Carroll explains how the record of evolution (descent with modification and the related "survival of the fittest"... more info

• Destined to be a classic.
  I was reading "The Origin of Species" along with this book, and it truly was an amazing experience. To read Darwin questioning (150 years ago) how varieties arise (and to remarkably attribute it to "something" with the reproductive organs by watching animals in domestication), and then within the same day read examples about gene duplication and the effects of point mutations, about the effect of just ONE amino acid substitution, about fossil genes, etc etc..was incredibly beautiful.
  I'm a 3rd year... more info

• Black box no more
  Ever since Darwin, scientists have worked their way closer and closer to a real model of how in fact natural selection could produce both the extant and extinct biodiversity of this planet. Carrol's book (written for the interested but not necessarily academically experienced reader) does an excellent job at bridging the gap from Darwin's grand theory to actual mechanism.
  The terrible truth is that without a class in genetics less than ten years ago, all would be lacking in some of the greatest... more info

• How DNA supports the fact of biological evolution
  Most of this book is a primer on how the study of DNA code from various species sheds light on the evolutionary process. The text is as clear as such a text can be considering how abstract the DNA sequences are to even the well educated reader. There are numerous charts and tables, drawings, black and white photos (and some color plates) and such in this timely, handsome and well-presented book to guide the reader. I only wish that I could have grasped the details in a more concrete manner.
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